Awakening The Inner Dreamer
Browsing social media or the news, it can be easy to start feeling like the world today is a living nightmare. But as a dreamworker, the nightmares that live inside of us are as vivid as what’s outside. The oppression, degradation, terror, and abuse that we find so overwhelming in our external world is depicted night after night as we toss and turn on our pillows.
When Our Dreams Bring Humor
Humor and playfulness in our dreams can help us feel truths of the soul in a fresh way....
Excavating the Girl, the Joy of Discovery
"What treasures are hidden beneath the surface just waiting to be excavated?"
Tending Dreams Through Art Making: Part Two, Perceptual And Affective Pathways
Entering the creative process through the perceptual and affective doorways can help shift us away from this self-conscious external focus, because both these doorways help us deepen into perceiving and feeling what the dreams offer us. Dreams are very rich with unexpected ways of perceiving, unusual geometric shapes and forms, shifting directions, weird terrain, as well as potent emotions that are often avoided, unexpressed or unresolved in waking consciousness.